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Testing Google Earth Engine for the automatic identification and vectorization of archaeological features: A case study from Faynan, Jordan
UNDERSTANDING THE DEMAND FOR FARMLAND PRESERVATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MICHIGAN POLICIES
The diversity of opinion on farmland preservation suggests that a close look at the issue is warranted as state and local governments consider how best to preserve the state's farmland resource. Public support for farmland preservation programs will be required if those programs are to be successful and will only be forthcoming if there is greater agreement about questions that underlie the policy debate. These questions include whether farmland loss is occurring, whether farmland preservation is needed, how farmland preservation programs should be designed, and what farmland should be preserved. This paper discusses each of these issues, in turn, and describes how current Michigan farmland preservation efforts are or are not addressing them.Land Economics/Use,
The Loudest Event Statistic: General Formulation, Properties and Applications
The use of the loudest observed event to generate statistical statements
about rate and strength has become standard in searches for gravitational waves
from compact binaries and pulsars. The Bayesian formulation of the method is
generalized in this paper to allow for uncertainties both in the background
estimate and in the properties of the population being constrained. The method
is also extended to allow rate interval construction. Finally, it is shown how
to combine the results from multiple experiments and a comparison is drawn
between the upper limit obtained in a single search and the upper limit
obtained by combining the results of two experiments each of half the original
duration. To illustrate this, we look at an example case, motivated by the
search for gravitational waves from binary inspiral.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
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